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Explaining how printer Ink Cartridges work

Inkjet printers are a very popular form of printers used across the globe for carrying out printing of documents, photos etc. These Inkjet Printers uses Ink Cartridges to print. The ink cartridge is an important part of an inkjet printer as this cartridge contains ink that is splashed onto the paper for printing. The ink cartridge is a repository that holds and contains one or more ink and when the computer sends printing command to the inkjet printer the ink cartridge splashes thousands of dots of colors on the paper to do the printing. There are two technologies that ink cartridges use to fire the ink on the paper for printing namely:

Bubble Jets: Popularly known as the ‘Thermal Inkjet’. This method fires the ink on the paper by heating the ink. The ink in the ink cartridge repository is heated inside each partition using a tiny metal plate or resistor. The thermal inkjet ink cartridges work as under: